Time since first human went into space

Time since first human went into space (62 y)

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Time since first human went into space (62 y)

  • is 1/4000 of Time since the first modern humans (250,000 y)...more
  • is 1/40 of Time since the birth of Socrates (2,490 y)...more
  • is 1/40 of Time since start of building of the Parthenon (2,468 y)...more
  • is 1/20 of Time since the birth of al-Khwarizmi (1,246 y)...more
  • is 1/20 of Time since the birth of al-Kindi (1,220 y)...more
  • is 1/10 of Time since the birth of Toscanelli (627 y)...more
  • is 1/5 of Time since the birth of Euler (316 y)...more
  • is 1/4 of Time since birth of Sophie Germain (248 y)...more
  • is 1/4 of Period of Pluto's orbit (248 y)...more
  • is 1/4 of Time since the birth of Gauss (247 y)...more
  • is 2/5 of Time since the publication of Volume 1 of Marx's Das Kapital (157 y)...more
  • is 2/5 of Time since the birth of physicist Marie Curie (157 y)...more
  • is 1/2 of Time since birth of M. C. Escher (126 y)...more
  • is 1/2 of Time since first transatlantic wireless communication (123 y)...more
  • is 2.5 x One average human generation (25 y)...more

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